An outline is given of the deterioration of refractories and stainless steels during the operation of a large strawburning furnace. The deterioration was caused by high temperatures, which sometimes exceeded 1400°C, and ...

Following application in the spring to a sandy loam soil, residues of glyphosate (N-phosphonomethyl glycine) decreased rapidly and degraded into aminomethylphosphonic acid which also was short lived. Analysis for glyphosate ...

The SCH3 groups of 3- and/or 5 alkyl substituted 2,4,6-trithiaheptanes have almost identical chemical shifts in both 1H and 13C nmr spectra. A combination of gated decoupling and single frequency off-resonance decoupling, ...

Since 1940, significant changes in the population of seabirds nesting on Manawagonish Island, New Brunswick have been observed. Most notably there were large increases in the numbers of nesting great black-backed gulls, ...

The puffers (Tetraodontidae) are small stout-bodied fishes which, when threatened, inflate a sac-like expansion of the gullet, dramatically expand their size and become spherical in shape. Two species, the oceanic puffer, ...

Soldier Lake (1.98 km<sup>2</sup>) is an undeveloped, oligotrophic, brown water lake near the Halifax International Airport in central Nova Scotia, which has been acidified from leaching of pyritized metalliferous slates ...

Two benthic sampling designs were used to collect gammaridean amphipods of soft sediments in the Bay of Fundy for taxonomic analysis. The first was a survey consisting of two grab samples at 266 stations spread throughout ...